People In Business

OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center has announced that Dr. Barry Rosenblum, ENT and Kenan Sahbaz FNP-C, with Gateway Medical Group, have begun seeing patients at OSF Multi-Specialty Group at OSF Saint Anthony’s Health Center. Rosenblum specializes in otolaryngology, caring for patients with conditions of the head and neck. He is trained in both the…

OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony’s Health Center and the OSF Moeller Cancer Center have welcomed Benita Lanham to their staff. Benita Lanham is a nurse practitioner specializing in oncology, with extensive knowledge in palliative care, adult medicine, medical oncology, leukemia and stem cell transplantation and cancer genetics counseling. She received her Bachelor and Master of Science…

Caseyville-based Focal Pointe Outdoor Solutions Inc. was recently awarded an Overall Safety Achievement Award from the National Association of Landscape Professionals. The award, part of NALP’s annual Safety Recognition Awards Program honors those companies with thorough, high-performing safety programs that create and maintain safe work environments in the lawn and landscape industry. It is designed…

From left: Joseph Swift, Ashley Moya, John McLeod, Zachary Faires and Kenneth Wilks. Baker Sterchi Cowden & Rice has announced that Joseph Swift, Zachary Faires, John McLeod, Ashley Moya, and Kenneth Wilks have joined the firm in St. Louis. Swift, Faires, and McLeod join as members, with Moya and Wilks joining as associates.  All five…

Wood River-based Midwest Members Credit Union was awarded a $20,000 grant to help support the community amid the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. The grant was received in partnership with the Federal Home Loan Bank and was allotted to assist local businesses, Non-Profit Organizations, and local schools with virus-related efforts. The funds will help to support the…

Credit union reflects on her 60 years of volunteerism   The Scott Credit Union family is mourning the loss this week of former long-term Board Chair Betty Renth. Renth, who retired from the SCU board in 2016, passed away early this week. She had volunteered as a director and chairman of the Board for over…

Fairview Heights-based IMPACT Strategies, a regional construction company that provides pre-construction and construction management, and design-build services, has relocated its Missouri office to 300 Hunter Ave. off Interstate 170. “Continued growth in the St. Louis Metropolitan area and beyond has prompted the move of our Missouri office. We wanted to be more centrally located to…

Four Alton Memorial Hospital departments were recognized with top 2020 awards from national health care research leader Professional Research Consultants Inc. The Digestive Health Center, which earned a 5-Star Award last year, earned a Top Performer award for 2020. This Award recognizes health care outpatient service lines, inpatient units, outpatient clinics, and physicians/providers that score…

English Professor Steve Higgins is Lewis and Clark Community College’s 2020 Emerson Electric Excellence in Teaching Award recipient. Higgins, 43, from Centralia, Illinois, teaches English 132, British Literature I and II, Comic Books as Literature, and has taught English 131 and Non-Western Cultures at Lewis and Clark. He is chair of the faculty Curriculum/Instruction Committee…

In one small way to combat a more than “400-year-pandemic” of institutionalized racism in the U.S., Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Education, Health and Human Behavior Dean Robin Hughes, PhD, is working in a deliberate and calculated way to make her university better, stronger and more equitable by hiring a group of faculty members…